Chapter 548

---- The pause was brief; as soon as they recognized the Dukes crest, they let us through.

I shifted the lace curtain slightly.

Outside, the city was bustling, lively, busy.

Thad never seen such prosperity before.

My eyes darted across the massive stone buildings we passed, the crowded streets, filled with exotic goods and spiced aromas.

Ten years...

the world had moved on without me.

"Fix that expression.

Remember who you are now," Freya muttered, adjusting her headscarf.

With every meter forward, we drew closer to the hill, to the Dukes castle.

When the carriage finally stopped, I felt the coachman dismount.

Sweat dampened my back.

Panic coiled around my throat.

«My daughter.

Iam doing this for my daughter.

I cannot fail» I swallowed the lump in my throat, and as the door swung open, I adjusted my gloves and stepped into the role I had to play.

Katherine Pembroke died in that asylum.

I am Rossella Everhart.

The Duchess of Everhart.

---- From the moment I saw him, everything about him fascinated me.

His roughness, his wild, piercing blue eyes, his sharp and masculine features...

his disdain...

spilled from my

«Not once...

not even once...

the movement of the carriage, the coachman

pulled back the curtain,

toward the

ever-present black clouds that never seemed to

realm, light always had to fight

"Dont be nervous.

ll do just fine," Freyas

wise, dark eyes

hadnt eaten

I couldnt.

of bread refused to

even begin to describe what I

person in that house who had ever genuinely cared for me,

together, a thousand thoughts racing through

and soon, the carriage halted

---- would be condemned.

where it had

suspected our mother had been the strange

We never knew her.

never spoke of

the time Katherine regained consciousness, she was already on her

the heart to kill her, so he

and became the betrothed of

was a rushed, discreet

been pregnant out of wedlock, but no one dared to say it openly in front

didnt respect

gave me my

the people of the Duchy whispered behind my back»

fold in the carpet and

So much pain...

that thing inside my body was

heart beat slower and

white ceiling, my trembling hand pressing against my chest, my

moments, I thought of

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